Today I have a quick little crafty project for you. Using a couple stampers and 3 colours of
paint, you can make a million adorable printed gift bags. I used fabric paint and mini canvas
tote bags for mine, but you could use regular arcylic paint and paper bags too. It would be
great for treat bags for a birthday party or for tucking a little gift into.
First up, the supplies. You'll need 3 colours of paint (red, yellow and blue) some stampers
and some kind of bag. If you don't want to buy stampers, you can use things you already have
around the house. The cap of a glue stick, the end of a thick marker or an old kids toy can
make a great stamper too. For my triangles, I used a little square of Speedball Speedy Cut
sliced into little triangles.
The reason I told to get only the primary colours is because you can mix any colour you want
from those and only spend money on 3 tubes of paint. The first design I tried was using a round
sponge stamper and the yellow and blue paints. I start with yellow for the first row, yellow with
a bit of blue for the second row, blue with a bit of yellow for the third row and pure blue
for the last row. Easy!
For the triangle design I used a bunch of Speedy Cut triangles, and the red and yellow paint.
I just mixed up those 2 paints in a couple ratios to get a few shades of orange, pink and yellow.
No need for rulers and measuring here, just go nuts with your triangle stamps until you like
what you see.
Hooray! I'm finally back to blogging! And what better way to celebrate than with a new
freebie. For those of you who didn't know, I've spent the last 2 months doing tax returns
at a local accounting firm. Well, not really doing the whole tax return, just the boring
repetitive bits like entering the..... Oh sorry, did you fall asleep there for a second?
I don't blame ya. :)
April showers bring May flowers, right? This is certainly one huge mystery flower. Not sure
that actual flowers really look like this, but I can imagine. Let me know if you see a
monster flower like this in your yard! Speaking of flowers, I'm going to be giving my front
garden a bit of a facelift this weekend. I'll be sure to take some before and after pics for
you to see.
There are 4 sizes to choose from depending what kind of computer/lappy you have
so there should be something for everyone's situation, plus a patterned iPhone
background. Just click one of the buttons below to get the full size image. Then
just save it and set it as your wallpaper.
Download the Backgrounds
1440 x 900 //
1366 x 768 //
1920 x 1080 //
2800 x 1880 //
iPhone
Hey friends! You may have noticed that I haven't been around for a while. Well, I didn't fall
off the face of the earth, I've just been very busy working on other projects such as
CourseCraft, painting my house, choir and my new job at an
accountant's office for tax season. Even though I've been swamped, I haven't forgot about
this little blog. Inspiration hasn't been coming easily to me for the past few months and
I love this blog so much that I didn't want to keep posting stuff I felt blah about, so
I decided this is a perfect time for a blog vacation. The blog will be back in full swing
May 1st, and I think it will be better than ever. Feeling like I don't have to post something
has already filled my head with so many ideas. I want to go back to the kind of posts
that got me excited, ie: gluing stuff to other stuff and telling you about it! So get
pumped for May 1st people!!
Here is a tiny list of just some of the blogs I love. It should keep you busy in the mean time!
You know that thing when you type a word so many times, it starts to look like giberish?
That happens to me all the time with 'February'... it always looks like it's spelled wrong!
It also doesn't help that I typed it roughly 12 million times getting this post together.
I hope you like the February Freebie. I think it's very February appropriate with all the hearts,
pink and love. If you look closely, you'll see that some of the hearts are glittery too!
Thanks for all the freebie suggestions last month, and please, keep 'em coming!
There are 4 sizes to choose from depending what kind of computer/lappy you have
so there should be something for everyone's situation, plus a patterned iPhone
background. Just click one of the buttons below to get the full size image. Then
just save it and set it as your wallpaper.
Download the Backgrounds
1440 x 900 //
1366 x 768 //
1920 x 1080 //
2800 x 1880 //
iPhone
